Firstly, we had an interesting 14 hour direct flight from Sydney International Airport to LAX. After listening to our neighbour's entire life story we were not sure how we'd fare upon arrival at Los Angeles. 'Deloris' as we named her (the only thing she didn't tell us was her name) was a crazy red headed Art Teacher from …

The land of dreams and opportunity: America. You can hear and imagine it in this one word. A journey in this beautiful culturally diverse country was an incredible experience. A new story of my life and memories that will be with me for the rest of my life. The reason why i chose this adventure was to try new things, see different places and …

Phew, arrived at last. Journey from home was good apart from one scary moment near Istanbul, the plane did some kind of half roll trick. Rick realised on landing his Mont Blanc pen had slipped down the side of his chair, after trying to fish it out unsuccessfully , we were relieved by several air crew who after 15 mins and finding 2 Turkish …

Today we were woken up at 6:30am. We all got dressed and lazed around till 8:15 because we had to catch a bus to Universal Studios! We met up with Georgia and Sherry at the bus depot, and then continued on to Universal Studios. We had to listen to the bus driver ramble on the loud speaker about sights and facts that no one cared about.

We picked up the car and headed out to the Disney Outlet store. It pretty much just had 2009-2011 things to buy. So not much good for us. Then we found a Dance outlet store and got the kids Tap shoes REALLY CHEAP!! If I had had Alannah with me I could have spent a fortune but my two dancers didn't really need or want any "dance" stuff.

Our taxi driver was delightful and gave us a wonderful running commentary about the sights of LA on our way to dropping us at our accommodation. We dropped our bags at our hotel (Hotel Roosevelt) only to be upgraded and allowed to early check in! USA you already have my …

The next morning I was up showered and ready to go by 10 to catch my 11am bus to Hollywood.I bid farewell to the hostel Cat and crossed the road waiting amongst the several wedding chapels to get a taxi to the bus station.i didn't particularly fancy another 40 degree hike loaded with my back pack to then sit on the bus in the sweat drenched clothes …

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